General Dynamics Corporation

Type	Public (NYSE: GD)
Founded	Falls Church, Virginia (February 21, 1952)
Location	Falls Church, Virginia
Key people	Nicholas D. Chabraja, Chairman and CEO
Industry	Defense
Products	Conglomerate
Revenue	$19.35 billion USD (2004) [1]
Employees	70,200 (2004)
Website	www.gd.com

"GD" redirects here. For the graphics library, see GD Graphics Library.

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History

Legacy and Acquisitions

• 1899 - Electric Boat was established and became General Dynamics in 1952
• 1946 - Canadair purchased from the Canadian government
• 1953 - Convair merged with General Dynamics^[2]
• 1971-1985 David S. Lewis, Jr., was chairman and chief executive officer. During his tenure, General Dynamics’ revenues and earnings quadrupled.
• 1982 - GD Combat Systems formed after acquisition of Chrysler's combat systems
• 1995 - Acquired Bath Iron Works, established in 1890
• 1998 - Acquired National Steel and Shipbuilding, established in 1905
• 1999 - Gulfstream Aerospace acquired from Forstmann Little, the company was founded in 1958
• 2001 - GD Decision Systems formed (and later merged with General Dynamics C4 Systems) after acquisition of Motorola's Integrated Information Systems Group
• 2002 - Acquired Advanced Technical Products
• 2003 - Acquired GM Defense from General Motors
• 2003 - Acquired Steyr Daimler Puch Spezialfahrzeug (SSF) from an Austrian investor group, which bought the company in 1998 from the Steyr-Daimler-Puch-conglomerate. SSF is now part of "General Dynamics European Land Combat Systems" which includes also the Spanish Santa Bárbara Sistemas and the Swiss MOWAG, and has its headquarters in Vienna, Austria.
• 2003 - Acquired Veridian.
• 2006 - Acquired Anteon International.

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Divestitures

• Coal mining
• Building materials
• Limestone
• Concrete
• 1976 - Canadair sold back to the Canadian government
• 1991 - Data Systems Division outsourced to Computer Sciences Corp.
• 1992 - Tactical Missiles Division to Hughes Electronics.
• 1992 - Cessna to Textron
• 1993 - Fixed wing military aircraft to Martin Marietta
• 1993 - Space Systems Division to Martin Marietta
• 1994 - Convair's aerostructures unit to McDonnell Douglas, (Convair closed in 1996).

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Corporate governance

Current members of the board of directors of General Dynamics are: Nicholas Chabraja, James Crown, Lester Crown, William Fricks, Charles Goodman, Jay Johnson, George Joulwan, Paul Kaminski, John Keane, Lester Lyles, Carl Mundy, and Robert Walmsley. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Nicholas D. Chabraja is the CEO of General Dynamics Corp. ... James S. Crown is a businessman. ... Lester Crown (1926-). Son of Chicago financier Henry Crown (d. ... George Joulwan (born 19XX) was a U.S. general. ... Carl Epting Mundy Jr. ...

Product lines as of 2002

• Aerospace
  • Gulfstream business aircraft
• Combat Systems - land and amphibious military vehicles e.g.
  • M1 Tank
  • EFV
  • the Stryker light armored vehicle
  • Interim Armored Vehicle
• Information Systems and Technology

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They integrate commercial off-the-shelf and custom-engineered products to deliver command, control, communications, computing, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR) solutions; provide information-assurance solutions; offer advanced software and electronics systems-development services; and design, engineer, install and support networks globally.

Partnering with the defense community and applying world-class technology, engineering and program management capabilities, General Dynamics delivers integrated low-risk, high-value 'systems of systems' that enable their customers to achieve their missions.

• Marine Systems
  
  • Virginia class SSNs
  • Ohio class SSGNs
  • Arleigh Burke class destroyers

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Subsidiaries

Aerospace

• General Dynamics Aviation Services
• Gulfstream Aerospace
• F-16

Gulfstream G200 Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation is located in Savannah, Georgia, United States, and has been a unit of General Dynamics since 2001. ... The F-16 Fighting Falcon is a modern multi-role jet fighter aircraft built in the United States and used by dozens of countries all over the world. ...

Combat Systems

• European Land Combat Systems
• General Dynamics Land Systems
• General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products
• General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems
• Steyr-Daimler-Puch

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Information Systems & Technology

• General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems
• General Dynamics C4 Systems
• General Dynamics Network Systems
  • Upon completion of the acquisition of Anteon International by General Dynamics, General Dynamics Network Systems and Anteon International will become a new organization known as General Dynamics Information Technology
• General Dynamics United Kingdom
• General Dynamics Wireless Systems

Marine Systems

• American Overseas Marine
• Bath Iron Works
• Electric Boat
• National Steel and Shipbuilding

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Financials

General Dynamics has about $12 billion in sales, primarily military, but also civilian with its Gulfstream Aerospace unit and conventional ship-building and repair with its National Steel and Shipbuilding subsidiary.

In 2004 General Dynamics bid for the UK company Alvis Vickers, the leading British manufacturer of armoured vehicles. In March the board of Alvis Vickers voted in favour of the £309m takeover. However at the last minute BAE Systems offered £355m for the company in what was seen as a move to keep General Dynamics out of its "back yard". This deal was finalised in June 2004. The Vickers corporation, founded as the Vickers company in 1828, was a British manufacturer, primarily of military equipment. ... Systems plc is the worlds fourth largest defence contractor and a commercial aerospace products manufacturer. ...

General Dynamics has tried to acquire Newport News Shipbuilding but been blocked by regulators and competitors. The newly constructed USS Birmingham is launched from the Newport News yards in 1942 Northrop Grumman Newport News, formerly called Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company (NNS&DD or simply NNS), is the largest privately owned shipyard in the United States and the only one that can build Nimitz-class...

Controlled subsidiaries of the corporation are donors to the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute ^[2]. The Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute is a Calgary, Alberta-based Canadian lobbying organization. ...

Current stock price as of 2005-02-04 is $63, after splitting in 2006-03-26. 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... February 4 is the 35th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... March 26 is the 85th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (86th in leap years). ...

References

1. ^ 2005 Defense News Top 100
2. ^ General Dynamics Corporation. U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission. Retrieved on 2006-03-31.

• Patents owned by General Dynamics Corporation. US Patent & Trademark Office. URL accessed on 5 December 2005.

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External links

• General Dynamics Corporation website
• Yahoo! - General Dynamics Corporation Company Profile